Sierra Studio is hiring a Design Engineer to turn complex AI capabilities into intuitive merchant experiences for our social commerce platform. You will own the look, feel, and flow across merchant and super-admin surfaces, crafting dashboards and interaction patterns that drive revenue.
What You'll Do
- Own the merchant and super-admin experience across a React/Next.js app from campaign setup to real-time conversation monitoring.
- Ship pixel-perfect, accessible UI with clean component architecture, thoughtful motion, and responsive behavior.
- Build sophisticated dashboards for campaign performance, conversation analytics, attribution, and time-range or filter drill-downs.
- Define AI interaction patterns like quick actions, suggestions, and NL prompts that non-technical users love.
- Prototype fast in Figma and code, moving from rough sketches to production with product and backend partners.
- Raise frontend quality bars on performance, state management, testing, instrumentation, and UX standards.
What We're Looking For
- 3+ years as a Design Engineer or Frontend Engineer with strong design instincts, or a designer-turned-engineer.
- Proficiency in React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS, plus modern state management patterns.
- Strong visual and interaction craft where detail, motion, and precision matter.
- Real-time UI experience with websockets, live updates, complex state, and optimistic UX.
- Data visualization for analytics and BI, including charts, tables, time series, cohorting, and drill-downs.
- A portfolio showing shipped B2B SaaS or commerce-grade UI.
- Clear English communication and a collaborative, low-ego style.
- Ability to join monthly in-person working sessions in Venice, CA.
Nice to Have
- Experience with design systems and component libraries, including tokens, theming, and docs.
- Background in attribution or analytics platforms.
- E-commerce or martech background with knowledge of Shopify or Stripe concepts.
- Performance tuning in large React apps, covering profiling, memoization, hydration, and streaming.
- Accessibility expertise with keyboard flows, ARIA, contrast, and audits.
- Experience with LLM or agentic UI patterns in commerce, such as suggestions, quick actions, or NL-to-query.
Technical Stack
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Figma
Benefits & Compensation
- Competitive salary
- Meaningful equity at an early stage
- Remote flexibility with monthly collaboration in Venice, CA
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position offering remote flexibility with a requirement for monthly in-person collaboration in Venice, CA.
Sierra Studio is an equal opportunity employer.
